Titles starting with H from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

London:. ca. 1830.. Large tinted lithograph Further captioned " To Admiral the Right Honble. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, G.C.B. G.C.H. Commander in Chief at Plymouth / This Print of Her Majesty's Ship Royal Adelaide, Guard Ship at that Port, is with his Lordship's permission respectfully dedicated by his Lordship's most obliged and very humble Servant, / Oswald Walters Brierly". Printed by Edmund Fry, London, & Edmund Fry Jnr. Plymouth. Image size 366 x 294 mm, with ample margins. ... more information

London:: W. & R. Chambers,. 1957.. First American edition. Hardcover. These letters concern Stanley's work after he found Livingstone in 1871; he was tasked with "constructing three stations, launching a steamer on the Upper Congo, and maintaining communications with the sea". 8vo, 183pp, b&w illus throughout. Red cloth covers with gilt title on green spine label. Pictorial dj with title in white on black ground on front cover and spine decorated with foliage. Dj ruffled at edges; slig... more information

London:: Messrs. Fores, lith. Day & Hague, Lithrs. to the Queen,. 1845.. Tinted lithograph with beautiful hand color. Fine lithograph of the sloop Brigattin running up channel 1845. Sir Henry Keppel's career in the Royal Navy included several tours to South East Asia & China for service against the Malay pirates, 1st in command of the H.M.S. Dido and later of the H.M.S. Maeander. Inglefield related the story of his two commands in two publications, "The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido f... more information

McCarthy, F.D. Habitat, Economy, and Equipment of the Australian Aborigines. Reprinted from: The Australian Journal of Science, Vol. 19, No. 4a, March 1957. pp88-97, front page taped, signed by author. ... more information

Adelaide:. 1893.. Customs of the Andrawilla tribe, with subtopics such as 'Marriage', 'Disease and Death', 'Burial', 'Wurleys', 'Food', 'Fire', and 'Government', and with a dictionary, 'Dialect'. Read at the Adelaide Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, September 1893. By Frank H. Wells of the South Australian Police Department. 8vo, 8pp, disbound. Central vertical fold, o/w very good. ... more information

Yerushalmi, Yoset Hayim. Haggadah and History. A Panorama in Facsimile of Five Centuries of the Printed Haggadah from the collections of Harvard University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1975, 2nd printing. Tall 4to. Very nice copy in slt. dusty dj. ... more information

Frank P. Dalzell,. 1909.. Very good overall. A large brick building with gabled roof & arch entrance, which no longer exists. Black & white postcard published by Dalzell 3.5 x 5.5". Undivided back, posted freom Cold Spring Aug 20, 1906 with the 1 cent stamp. A little marked. ... more information

New York:. 1910.. total of 9 cards; 6 Hallowe'en Greetings cards by Brundage, from Series 120, dated 1910; Clapsaddle card 1911, Series No. 1238; O.U. Kid card of a man and woman kissing, decorated with witch, bat, jack-o-lantern, black cats & gold owl; Wishing you a Jolly Halloween, boys stealing a picket gate, embossed, silver gilt. A little light wear, very good overall. ... more information

St. Louis:: Privately Printed, William K. Bixby,. 1907.. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 487 copies. 4to, frontis, folding map, xxvii, 263pp unopened, b&w illus, Index. Three quarter tan leather and cloth covers, with gilt title at spine. Sml split at base of spine, o/w very good. Internally, very good, pages bright and clean, pages unopened. In a tan stamped slipcase, with top panel loose, and rubbed at edges. A journey undertaken by an Annapolis doctor, Dr. Alexander Hamilton in 1744;... more information

Stieler, Adolf. Hand Atlas. 1868. 84 Karten. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1867. Oblong folio atlas with 84 steel engraved maps with period outline color. Wonderful steel engraved maps, including the moon's surface, celestial maps, hemisphere maps, the winds, Europe, Africa, North & South America, Australia, Middle East, most with insets of principal cities. Detailed Arctic & Antarctic maps, with explorers tracks, dates & soundings. Handsome, precise maps. Sturdily but rather unusually bound in gree... more information

Japan:. 1900.. ca 1900. 24 card collection of hand colored photographs of Japan, with titles including: Tea House Garden in Japan, Daibuthu Kamakura, Temple Gate Yomeimon Nikko, Mt Fuji, Wisteria blossoms at Kameido, Tokyo, Otamaya Gate Shiba (Tokyo), Koyomizu Temple (Kyoto), Toshogu Shrine Uyeno (Tokyo), Ginkakuji Temple (Kyoto), Nanko Shrine (Kobe), Imperial Palace (Tokyo), Big Torii (Miyajima), View of Enoshima, Mt. Fuji from Yamanaka Lake, Sacred Bridge at Nikko, Mt. Fuji from Shojin Lake, and Castle o... more information

Artus, Dr. Wilibald. Hand-Atlas sammtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse... Jena 1876. Thick 8vo, 758pp, 114 hand-colored plates throughout. Volume 2 only. Half brown leather, gilt title, raised bands, bit bumped and rubbed but very sturdy. Internally very clean. Gorgeous color engraved plates of medicinal botanicals, quite simple, but sweet. ... more information

New York:: D. Appleton,. 1869.. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, 478pp, ads (ii). Brown cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Rear cover dusty, spine sunned. Internally, handwritten pencil notes at rear, o/w very good. Pierre Blot opened the first school of French cooking, the New York Cooking Academy, in New York in 1865. ... more information

Washington DC:: United States Government Printing Office,. 1949.. Very good+. 8vo, 818 pp, b&w illus throughout. Olive green cloth cover with gilt title on spine. Vol. 5 only. Spine is slightly rubbed at bottom and front cover lower corner is bumped, o/w very clean inside. This is Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143; prepared in cooperation with the United States Department of Sate as a Project of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation. ... more information

Oxford:: James Parker And Co.,. 1875.. Cloth. Very good. 8vo, 288 pp, b&w frontis, b&w illustrations throughout; 145 wood cuts and 26 steel plate engravings. A folding color map of Oxford at the end; ads (viii). Light fox spotting on ffep and on verso of some plates; o/w very clean. Red cloth cover with pictorial gilt title on cover, "Handbook for Oxford". Gilt title on stamped spine. Hinge starting at top inch and half, but holding. Top edge gilt. ... more information

Boston:: Little Brown & Co,. 1907.. Third edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, b&w frontis, iv, 325pp, folding maps, b&w illus throughout. Gray decorative cloth covers with gilt title at spine; very good. ... more information

Canberra:: Dept. of External Affairs, Commonwealth of Australia,. 1939.. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 90pp, map of Graham Land. Original tan papered boards, with tasteful new spine. Rear cover slt marked, o/w very good. Spence 99. ... more information

Bliss, R.W. Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington. NY 1963. (xi) 78pp, many ills, 3 maps. Paper wprs, vg cond. Light tan supplement inserted in rear. ... more information

New York:: Wiley & Putnam,. 1842.. Hardcover. 8vo, (xvi) 263pp, 8 pp ads, ills. in text by J.J. Butler. Orig. patterned green cloth w/ gilt decoration; dusty, o/w a very nice copy. ... more information

Barwick, Diane, Michael Mace & Tom Stannage. Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander History. Aboriginal History, Canberra 1979. xi + 187pp, pp wrps. 32 papers on aboriginal history. ... more information